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Directory         1.    Julie Auger, Minority Languages in Europe: Successes and Challenges Message 1: Minority Languages in Europe: Successes and Challenges Date: 27-Aug-2010 From: Julie Auger <jaugerindiana.edu> Subject: Minority Languages in Europe: Successes and Challenges E-mail this message to a friend Minority Languages in Europe: Successes and Challenges Date: 07-Oct-2010 - 09-Oct-2010 Location: Bloomington, IN, USA Contact: Deborah Piston-Hatlen Contact Email: eurlangsindiana.edu Meeting URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~eurlangs Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics Meeting Description: The 'Minority Languages in Europe' conference will explore aspects of European minority languages and related cultural issues. Invited Speakers: -José Ignacio Hualde, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -Bernat Joan i Mari, Secretari de Política Lingüística de la Generalitat de Catalunya -Claude Truchot, Université de Strasbourg -Jean-Luc Vigneux, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Ch'Lanchron, author, singer,composer, translator -Colin Williams, Cardiff University Direct link to the program: http://www.iub.edu/~west/eurlangs_program.shtml Tentative Program: Thursday, October 7, 2010 12:00-5:00 p.m. Registration 5:00-7:00 Presentation and Performance by Jean-Luc Vigneux (Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Ch'Lanchron, author, singer, composer, translator), Ch'Lanchron, A Weed Planted 30 Years Ago in Picardie Reception Friday, October 8, 2010 8:00-9:00 a.m. Registration 9:00-9:30 a.m. Welcome 9:30-11:00 a.m. Session 1 - Tilman Lanz & Eva Juarros-Daussa (SUNY, Buffalo), Language Attitudes and Practices among Immigrant Muslims in Catalonia Gemma Punti (University of Minnesota), Language Policy in Catalonia through the Life of an Immigrant Francesc Xavier Vila Moreno (Universitat de Barcelona, CUSC), Eva Gomàriz Auró (Universitat de Barcelona, CUSC), & Llorenç Comajoan Colomé (Universitat de Vic, CUSC), Patterns of Language Use in Catalan, Spanish and Tamazight by students in Osona Session 2 - Alison Henry (University of Ulster), What about Dialects? Jolanta Tambor (University of Silesia, Poland), The Silesian Ethno-language: Issues of Codification Rey Romero (University of Houston-Downtown), Dialect v. Standard in Revitalization Efforts: Judeo-Spanish and Spanish in Istanbul 11:00-11:30 a.m. Break 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Plenary Session - Bernat Joan i Marí (Secretary of Language Policy of the Government of Catalonia), Language Policies for Social Cohesion 12:30-2:30 p.m. Lunch 2:30-3:30 p.m. Session 3 - Josep Soler Carbonell ( Universitat de Barcelona/UC San Diego), Estonia vs. Catalonia: Who Learns from Who? An Insight from the Point of View of their Speakers' Linguistic Ideologies Patrick McCrea (Tulane University), Politics and the Regional Languages of France: Langue d'Oc and the Langues d'Oïl Session 4 - Dov-Ber Kerler & Jeffrey Veidlinger (Indiana University), Rescue Ethnography: Last-chance Recordings of Prewar born Yiddish Native-speakers in Contemporary Eastern Europe Frances Trix (Indiana University), Strategies of a 500-year Urban Remnant People in Macedonia 3:30-4:00 p.m. Break 4:00-5:00 p.m. Plenary Session - José Ignacio Hualde (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Does Language Revitalization Work? Lessons from Basque Saturday, October 9, 2010 9:00-10:30 a.m. Session 5 - Anne-José Villeneuve (Indiana University), You Can (Try to) Take a Minority Language out of France, but You Can't Take it Out of French Maria del Puy Ciriza-Lope (University of North Texas at Dallas), 'Basque Spanish': The Creation of an Urban Basque Identity through the Spanish Language A. Seza Dugruoz (UC Santa Barbara/ Tilburg University), Turkish Spoken in the Netherlands:On-going Language Change Session 6 - Carla Paciotto (Western Illinois University), What Do I Lose if I Lose my Bilingual School? The Slovene Language Maintenance Program in Italy Fabienne Goalabré, Bilingual Education: An Educational Success Without the Expected Impact on Language Revitalization Sonia Benghida (Cardiff University), The Spatial Planning Strategy in the Welsh Language Revitalization Agenda 10:30-11:00 a.m. Break 11:00 a.m.-12:00 noon Session 7 - Video Presentations Philippa Law (Queen Mary, University of London), Opportunities for Minority Languages in Contemporary British Broadcast Media Laurent Delabie-Devime, Assertion and/or Extinction of European Regional Languages through the Experiences of a Traveling Artist Session 8 - Anne Dagnac (Université Toulouse 2), Picard Interrogatives and Clause-typing Timothy Gupton (University of Georgia), Minority Languages in Experimental Syntactic Research: Galician as a Case Study 12:00-2:00 p.m. Lunch 2:00-3:00 p.m. Plenary Session - Colin Williams (Cardiff University), The Mask of Piety: Reflections on Promotion and Regulation 3:00-3:30 p.m Break Session 9 - 3:30-5:00 p.m. Camiel Hamans (European Parliament), The Monitoring Role of the European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages Michele Gazzola (University of Geneva), Evaluating Language Policies for Minority Languages: Principles and Methodology Susan Holdsworth (Sheffield University), Dutch within Multilingual European Political Discourse Session 10 - 3:30-4:30 p.m. Jean-Pierre Montreuil (The University of Texas at Austin), Diphthongs and Triphthongs in Cotentin Norman Olga Scrivner & Tanya Flores (Indiana University), Rhotic Variants in Northern Catalan 7:00-10:00 p.m. Banquet, Finch's Brasserie Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 27-Aug-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.